Denominations of gold-pressed latinum, in order of increasing value, include the slip, the strip, the bar and the brick.

"Who Mourns for Morn?" suggests that gold is worthless, but Quark may have just stated this out of frustration and in comparison to the latinum he was expecting. Quark did mention that there are certain primitive cultures that consider gold dust quite valuable. See gold for more information.

Liquid latinum appears to be less harmful to humanoid life than the real-world liquid metal mercury. This is seen to be true in the episode DS9: "Who Mourns for Morn?" where Morn spits out about a hundred bricks' worth of liquid latinum into a glass, revealing he had stored his life savings of latinum in his second stomach, which had caused his hair to fall out but otherwise appears to have left him unharmed. Then again, as we know little of Morn's species, it may be the result of a strong constitution on his part, or an immunity of his species.

The existence of these items is slightly unusual, as it suggests that a solid form of Latinum does exist. However, pure gold is also never used in contemporary jewelry, and perhaps several latinum alloys or even allotropes of latinum are solid.

Slips

One slip of latinum

One hundred slips of gold-pressed latinum are equal to one strip. (DS9: "Body Parts")

1 slip

Ferengi put one slip of gold-pressed latinum into the throne of the Grand Nagus. (DS9: "Ferengi Love Songs")

A Ferengi traditionally pays a toll of one slip of latinum per head upon entering the house of another Ferengi. (DS9: "Family Business")

In the Tower of Commerce in 2372, it cost seven slips of latinum to use the elevator. Quark exclaims that this is greater than his previous visits to the tower. (DS9: "Family Business")

8 slips

Quark sells a sick Changeling to Odo for eight slips of latinum. When he thought it was dead he asked for five slips and when he thought it was alive he increased this to ten slips, finally leveling the deal at eight because it was "sick". (DS9: "The Begotten")

A dress from Garak's shop would cost seventeen strips of latinum, but Quark offers twenty for it. (DS9: "Profit and Loss")

Bars

Bars of latinum

One bar of gold-pressed latinum is equal to twenty strips or 2,000 slips of latinum. (DS9: "Body Parts")

In an auction, Quark suggests that one bar and twenty five strips is lower in value than two bars. (DS9: "In the Cards") This might contradict the idea that there are twenty strips in a bar but not necessarily if for some reason it is more costly to produce larger units. See Seigniorage [1]

1 bar

Tiron pays Quark one bar of latinum and a precious jeweled ring for a custom holosuite program. Apparently, this is quite generous, as Quark suggests that he could "move into a holosuite" with that much latinum. (DS9: "Meridian")

Quark estimates (possibly generously) that a day's business in his bar is about five bars of latinum. (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight")

Morica Bilby received a wage of five bars of latinum a week for services rendered as a shipping consultant. The salary increases to ten then twenty and finally thirty bars a week. (DS9: "Prodigal Daughter")

During an evacuation of Deep Space 9, Quark offers twenty bars for a seat on a transport off the station, increasing this from an original offer of five, followed by ten. (DS9: "The Siege")

22 bars

One of Quark's customers didn't pay a "rather extensive" bar tab that came to twenty-two bars including the interest it accumulated. Quark said, although he would be offered eight bars, he would accept twelve. (DS9: "Return to Grace")

30 bars

Quark's last offer to Vash for the Promethean quartz-like lifeform was thirty bars, which Vash declined. (DS9: "Q-Less")

36 bars

Quark sells an item in his auction of Vash's finds to a buyer called Kolos for thirty-six bars of latinum. (DS9: "Q-Less")

40 bars

Bidding for a knife in Quark and Vash's auction started at forty bars. (DS9: "Q-Less")

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